Fresh topics are kind of hard to come by these days, particularly when you’re trying to maintain a weekly Quantifying Hope column that focuses on the Cubs’ odds and other measurements of their performance. So you can imagine my relief excitement when the folks at Casino.ca came to CI with an exclusive study about ticket ROI for the Cubs and MLB overall.
Gone are the days of kids getting free bleacher tickets to the next day’s game for picking up trash and flipping up seats. The Cubs boast some of the highest ticket prices in the league and they easily lead the majors when it comes to fan cost index, an approximation of what it costs to take a family of four to the ballpark.